Dan,
> I can't see how this requirement is met...
I don't see that it's a 'requirement', since it falls under section 5,
'Future Considerations', which is non-normative. (Section 5 also explicitly
says that the issues listed - of which HTTP authentication is one - "will
not be addressed in the first release".)
Mark
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